linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 3/3] KVM: x86: Document host suspend being included in steal time.

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Message-Id: <20250107042202.2554063-4-suleiman@google.com>
Date: Tue,  7 Jan 2025 13:22:01 +0900
From: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@...gle.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, 
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org, 
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Chao Gao <chao.gao@...el.com>, 
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	ssouhlal@...ebsd.org, Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/3] KVM: x86: Document host suspend being included in
 steal time.

Steal time now includes the time that the host was suspended.

Change-Id: Ie1236bc787e0d3bc9aff0d35e6b82b7e5cc8fd91
Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@...gle.com>
---
 Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/msr.rst | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/msr.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/msr.rst
index 3aecf2a70e7b43..81c17c2200ca2f 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/msr.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/msr.rst
@@ -294,8 +294,10 @@ data:
 
 	steal:
 		the amount of time in which this vCPU did not run, in
-		nanoseconds. Time during which the vcpu is idle, will not be
-		reported as steal time.
+		nanoseconds. This includes the time during which the host is
+		suspended. However, the case where the host suspends during a
+		VM migration might not be correctly accounted. Time during
+		which the vcpu is idle, will not be reported as steal time.
 
 	preempted:
 		indicate the vCPU who owns this struct is running or
-- 
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